Category: Daily Devotions

It is so important that as a believer, we always know that the Lord goes before us in our day-to-day journey. We cannot afford to go before Him nor forget that He is leading the way. Know that you are never alone and that the Lord knows the path you take. The Lord Jesus demonstrates…

“Blessed are the peacemakers, for they will be called sons of God.” (Matthew 5:9) Sometimes the best resolution to a conflict is a separation, even if it’s temporary. When emotions run high, you need space to think clearly. And God can use this time of separation for His glory. Because Paul and Barnabas parted, the…

“And [Jesus] took the children in his arms, placed his hands on them and blessed them.” (Mark 10:16) This well-known story of the disciples turning away parents and children from Jesus is one of the few times we hear of Jesus interacting with children. The attitude of the disciples does not impress Jesus. At best,…

“I said to myself, ‘I will confess my transgressions to the Lord’. And you forgave me! All my guilt is gone.” (Psalm 32:5b) “How can you live with yourself?” We say this to someone who has deliberately, callously or badly hurt another person. A murderer, a rapist, a serious criminal. King David had sex with…

“If we have built our own altar to turn away from the LORD and to offer burnt offerings and grain offerings, or to sacrifice fellowship offerings on it, may the LORD himself call us to account.” (Joshua 22:23) In the Bible an altar represent different things. It represented sacrificing to God by giving Him the…

“No immoral, impure or greedy person — such a person is an idolater — has any inheritance in the kingdom of Christ and of God.” (Ephesians 5:5) Greed — the never satisfied desire for more, in particular, more money or things. Jesus told his disciples not to store up things — treasures — here on…

“Then God said, ‘Let us make man in our image, in our likeness, and let them rule over the fish of the sea and the birds of the air, over the livestock, over all the earth, and over all the creatures that move along the ground.’” (Genesis 1:26) At creation God said something interesting about…

“When God saw what they did and how they turned from their evil ways, he did not bring on them the destruction he had threatened.” (Jonah 3:10) What a contrast between this story of Jonah and the previous story of Jeremiah! They were both prophets, given God’s word to proclaim: “Listen, or be destroyed”. Jeremiah…

“For the sinful nature desires what is contrary to the Spirit, and the Spirit what is contrary to the sinful nature. They are in conflict with each other, so that you do not do what you want.” (Galatians 5:17) The Bible says: “If you are guided by the Spirit, you won’t obey your selfish desires.…